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and channels with respect to income inequality, poverty, education, and health. To date, this area has received less … analysis although it is relevant to the Sustainable Development Goals agenda, as a significant number of the world poor live in … levels of resource rents can end up with significantly different achievements in terms of poverty, inequality, health, and …
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comprehensive set of data from the updated database of the World Bank to capture the heterogeneous dimensions of natural resource … considers the panel vector error correction (PVECM) procedure to explain changes in economic growth outcomes as induced by oil … rent, coal rent and forest rent. The consideration of the (PVECM) was premised on the panel unit root process that returns …
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development - particularly in the developing world. Yet while a large national income can result from resource wealth, it can also … be associated with acute social inequality and deep poverty. Many countries struggle to diversify their economies, and …
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In this paper we document the stylized facts about the relationship between international oil price swings, sovereign risk and macroeconomic performance of oil-exporting economies. We show that even though being a bigger oil producer decreases sovereign risk–because it increases a...
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This study explains the emergence of the Sicilian mafia in the XIX century as the product of the interaction between natural resource abundance and weak institutions. We advance the hypothesis that the mafia emerged after the collapse of the Bourbon Kingdom in a context characterized by a severe...
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resource abundance affect the FDI-growth relationship. Using panel data for a sample the period 1993-2012, the paper uses fixed …
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Between 1997 and 2014, US corn, soybean and cotton production almost fully converted to genetically modified crops. Starting around 2007, improved tight oil and shale gas technologies turned the declining US fossil fuel production into a booming industry. We study the effects of these two...
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empirical evidence is robust to using both static panel data methods that control for unobserved country heterogeneity as well …
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This paper explores the effect of natural resource dependence on market concentration of imports. Using a new panel …
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